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Flower hunters.
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ISBN: 9780192807182 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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The one per cent advantage : the sociobiology of being human
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ISBN: 0631160043 Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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Q is for quantum : particle physics from A-Z
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ISBN: 0297817523 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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James Lovelock
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ISBN: 9781400832859 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Flower Hunters
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ISBN: 9780199561827 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of botany. For these adventurers, the search for new, undiscovered plant specimens was something worth risking - and often losing - their lives for. From the Douglas-fir and the monkey puzzle tree, to exotic orchids and azaleas, many of the plants that are now so familiar to us were found in distant regions of the globe, often in wild and unexplored country, in impenetrable jungle, and in the face of hunger, disease, and hostile locals. It was specimens like these, smuggled home by the flower hunters, that helped build the great botanical collections, and lay the foundations for the revolution in our understanding of the natural world that was to follow. Here, the adventures of eleven such explorers are brought to life, describing not only their extraordinary daring and dedication, but also the lasting impact of their discoveries both on science, and on the landscapes and gardens that we see today.

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James Lovelock : In Search of Gaia
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ISBN: 9781400832859 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Children of the ice : climate and human origins.
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ISBN: 0631168176 Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,

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Being human : putting people in an evolutionary perspective.
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ISBN: 0460861549 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Dent,

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FitzRoy : the remarkable story of Darwin's Captain and the invention of the weather forecast
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ISBN: 0755311817 0755312902 Year: 2003 Publisher: London : Headline book publ.,

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Admirals --- Meteorology --- History


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Un pour cent fait la différence : la sociobiologie de l'être humain
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ISBN: 9782221065846 2221065840 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris: Laffont,

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